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  • Oestigaard, Terje (författare)
  • Rainbows, pythons and waterfalls : heritage, poverty and sacrifice among the Busoga, Uganda
  • 2019
  • Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Cultural and natural heritage is a fundamental part of society and crucial in any development process; yet because of the complexity, it has proved difficult to incorporate culture and tradition in actual policy practice. Here the rich heritage of the Busoga is explored, using the water cosmology at the Itanda Falls in Uganda, with a specific emphasis on a rainmaking ritual and sacrifice to the rain-god during a drought. While rainmaking rituals cannot mitigate climate change in the modern world, and while fewer and fewer people believe in the traditional religion, the past and its traditions are still sources for the future. As we rethink the role of heritage in the processes of poverty alleviation, it is argued, a strong emphasis on cultural and natural heritage is one of the most efficient and important areas of long-term development in an era of globalization, when traditions are disappearing. Without a past, there is no future.
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  • Oestigaard, Terje, 1973-, et al. (författare)
  • Gish Abay – the source of the Blue Nile
  • 2011
  • Ingår i: Water and Society. - Southampton. Boston : WIT Press. ; , s. 27-38
  • Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • The river Nile is by many seen as the most important river in the world. The source of the Blue Nile is a spring called Gish Abay in Ethiopia. This is the source of Gilgal Abay (meaning the little Abay), which is the most voluminous of the some sixty rivers flowing into Lake Tana. Although the Nile Quest has attracted emperors and explorers alike since Antiquity, after the sources of the Nile were discovered the majority of studies have focused on hydrology and not on cultural and religious aspects of the river. Gish Abay has been seen as the outlet of the river Gihon flowing directly from Paradise linking this world with Heaven. The holiness of Abay and the source in particular have had and still have an important role in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Moreover, before the source was Christianised it had a central role in the indigenous religion where lavish ox sacrifices were conducted. Thus, in this article we highlight the ritual and religious role of Gish Abay in a historic perspective.
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  • Oestigaard, Terje, 1973- (författare)
  • Holy water : the works of water indefining and understanding holiness
  • 2017
  • Ingår i: WIREs Water. - : Wiley. - 2049-1948. ; 4:3, s. 1-12
  • Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
    • Holy water has a central role in shaping the understanding and beliefs of holiness in general, but how does holy water work, and what defines holy water? By analyzing holy water in three different religious traditions—Christianity in Northern Europe, Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and Hinduism—the aim is to discuss the metaphysical essence of water in human understanding and ideas of holiness embodied in water. On the one hand, holy water represents purity and has to be protected from defilement, but on the other hand, many holy rivers are severely polluted. This seeming paradox will be analyzed by focusing on actual beliefs and uses of holy water in ritual and religious practices. Holy water transmits purity and holiness, but it also transfers, transports, and transforms impurities. In the process of obtaining spiritual purity, devotees may pollute the holy because holy water is believed to have a divine agency. By comparing ritual practices and beliefs in three distinct religious traditions in Europe, Africa, and Asia, it is possible to enhance the understanding of the ways holiness and holy water are perceived to work in cultural-specific religious worldviews based on essential capacities of water cross-culturally. This directs the attention to the structuring mechanisms at work because water is conceptualized and used as holy in remarkably similar ways in many religions.
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  • Faith as politics : reflections in commemoration of Beyers Naudé (1915-2004)
  • 2015
  • Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
    • Beyers Naudé was in his later life one of the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activists. Convinced by the strength of his faith he took a courageous political stand in a time in South African history when it was much needed. In May 2015, Oom Bey's hundredth birthday was reason to remember and celebrate his service to the people. Faith As Politics is an anthology with contributions from researchers, diplomats, activists and clergies who all have one thing in common – they were all engaged in the struggle against apartheid at the same time as Naudé. And almost all of them worked with him in one way or another. This is a unique depiction of aman whose faith, struggle and courage deserve to be recognized.
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  • Hellsten, Sirkku (författare)
  • Afrikkalainen filosofia ja rasismi
  • 2017
  • Ingår i: Rasismi ja filosofia. - Turku : Eetos. - 9789526842943 ; , s. 147-165
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  • Hellsten, Sirkku (författare)
  • Rheotric and Politics of 'New Africa'
  • 2016
  • Ingår i: Théories de la justice. - Louvain-la-Neuve : Presses universitaires de Louvain. - 9782875584786 - 9782875584793 ; , s. 83-95
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